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THE BOOK OF<br/>
<span class=large>JOB</span>
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CHAPTER 31
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Job invites judgment so that God may know his integrity—If he has done ill, he welcomes the penalties for such.
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<span class='smallcaps'>I made</span> a <sup>a</sup><a href="job/31/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 43: 9.">covenant</a> with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
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For what portion of God <i>is there</i> from above?  and <i>what</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="job/31/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Inheritance.">inheritance</a> of the Almighty from on high?
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<i>Is</i> not destruction to the wicked?  and a strange <i>punishment</i> to the workers of iniquity?
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Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
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If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath <sup>a</sup><a href="job/31/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Rashness.">hasted</a> to <sup>b</sup><a href="job/31/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Deceit.">deceit</a>;
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Let me be <sup>a</sup><a href="job/31/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Dan. 5: 27.">weighed</a> in an even balance, that God may know mine <sup>b</sup><a href="job/31/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Integrity.">integrity</a>.
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If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart <sup>a</sup><a href="job/31/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 11: 9; Hel. 13: 27 (26-27).">walked</a> after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
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<i>Then</i> let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
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If mine heart have been <sup>a</sup><a href="job/31/9a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB enticed.">deceived</a> by a woman, or <i>if</i> I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;
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<i>Then</i> let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
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For this <i>is</i> an heinous crime; yea, it <i>is</i> an iniquity <i>to be punished by</i> the judges.
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For it <i>is</i> a fire <i>that</i> consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
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If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
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What then shall I do when God riseth up?  and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
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Did not he that made me in the womb make him?  and did not one <sup>a</sup><a href="job/31/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mal. 2: 10; Acts 17: 26; Ether 3: 15.">fashion</a> us in the womb?
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If I have withheld the poor from <i>their</i> desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
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Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
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(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as <i>with</i> a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)
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If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
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If his loins have not blessed me, and <i>if</i> he were <i>not</i> warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
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If I have lifted up my hand against the <sup>a</sup><a href="job/31/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 22: 9; James 1: 27; 3 Ne. 24: 5.">fatherless</a>, when I saw my help in the gate:
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<i>Then</i> let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
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For destruction <i>from</i> God <i>was</i> a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
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If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, <i>Thou art</i> my confidence;
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If I rejoiced because my <sup>a</sup><a href="job/31/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 62: 10; Alma 1: 30 (30-31).">wealth</a> <i>was</i> great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
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If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking <i>in</i> brightness;
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And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
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This also <i>were</i> an iniquity <i>to be punished by</i> the judge: for I should have denied the God <i>that is</i> above.
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If I <sup>a</sup><a href="job/31/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 17: 5.">rejoiced</a> at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
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Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a <sup>a</sup><a href="job/31/30a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Curse.">curse</a> to his soul.
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If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh!  we cannot be satisfied.
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The stranger did not lodge in the street: <i>but</i> I opened my doors to the traveller.
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If I <sup>a</sup><a href="job/31/33a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 28: 13.">covered</a> my transgressions <sup>b</sup><a href="job/31/33b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR as some men do.">as</a> Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
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Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, <i>and</i> went not out of the door?
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Oh that one would hear me!  behold, my desire <i>is, that</i> the Almighty would answer me, and <i>that</i> mine adversary had written a book.
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Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, <i>and</i> bind it <i>as </i>a crown to me.
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I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
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If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
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If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
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Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and <sup>a</sup><a href="job/31/40a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR noxious weeds.">cockle</a> instead of barley.  The words of Job are ended.
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